Papers, 1915-1972.

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Papers, 1915-1972.

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Collection contains materials relating to Root's involvement in city planning including extensive subject files containing maps, blueprints, correspondence and articles and reports written by Root concerning zoning, park systems, city planning and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (1915-1972); newspaper clippings; and maps of Michigan and Maryland.

3.15 cubic ft. (7 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7266485

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

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The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission was created in 1927 (Chapter 448, Acts of 1927) to assume jurisdiction over parks and planning in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, which is also defined as the Maryland-Washington Metropolitan District. The commission is composed of ten members, five from each county, serving four year terms. The five members from each county make up that jurisdiction's planning board. The committee chairperson alternates yearly betw...

Root, Irving C.

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Irving Campdoras Root (1891-1973) worked as a city planner and landscape architect in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1916-1920, and in Flint, Michigan from 1920-1922. He worked as a private planning consultant from 1922-1927 before becoming the Chief Engineer and Planning Director of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Root was then Superintendent of the National Capital Parks in the District of Columbia from 1940-1953 before returning to private practice as a planning con...